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How Tech Companies Exploit Zombies

posted by cmn32480 on Monday November 02 2015, @04:21PM   Printer-friendly
from the braaaaaaaaaiiiiiiinnnnnnssssssssss dept.

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You can now order zombies using your ride-sharing app. In New York and San Francisco, Lyft has arranged for actors dressed as zombies to appear at your desired location this Halloween. Meanwhile, CareerBuilder has analyzed data about America's 53 largest cities to determine which one is most likely to survive a zombie attack, weighting 8 factors including the percentage of engineers in the population and the number of small arms manufacturers.

Exploiting the popular fascination with zombies has apparently become a new Halloween tradition for everyone from job-finding sites to self-published authors. One blog even notes the number of zombie-themed ebooks in Amazon's Kindle Store has doubled every year since 2011, peaking this year at 15,659 different titles.

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  • (Score: 1) by OwMyBrain on Tuesday November 03 2015, @02:32PM

    by OwMyBrain (5044) on Tuesday November 03 2015, @02:32PM (#257933)

    I'm not sure what the 2015s analogy will be for...bell bottoms

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